The Receptionist
MAY 9, 2024
Logistics facilities are a constant flurry of activity. Drivers arrive with deliveries while others prepare to take off with a loaded truck or trailer. Warehouse managers check loads in and out. Workers move freight from truck to warehouse or vice versa. Inspectors and auditors come through to ensure safety and/or compliance. And occasionally, a customer, executive, or shareholder might pop in.
Office Space
MAY 9, 2024
The workplace is rapidly evolving. The days of rigid office layouts and inflexible work schedules are fading as businesses recognize the importance of prioritizing their employees’ well-being, needs, and preferences. In 2024, a human-centric hybrid office approach is no longer desirable—it’s essential to stay competitive. This blog post will explore the fundamentals of human-centric design in the workplace and the compelling reasons why organizations shouldn’t delay making this trans
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BMT Office Administration
MAY 9, 2024
Maintaining payroll compliance is a must for accounting departments, but it’s often easier said than done. That’s especially true whenever new changes come about, and 2023 was a year rife with new payroll regulations, trends, and initiatives. From the implementation of SECURE 2.0 to new IRS enforcement initiatives, there’s a lot of payroll administrators need to know.
McKensey
MAY 9, 2024
Venture capital firm Ninepointfive invested in manufacturing company MakerVerse to improve supply chains and scale innovation.
Workplace Insight
MAY 9, 2024
The digital edition of the new Works magazine is now available for you here. And it’s bigger, and dare we say better, than ever. In this issue: we look back on Milan Design Week and forward to Clerkenwell Design Week; there are no fewer than four projects highlighting the latest design trends and thinking; we present the award winners from the Sustainable Design Collective; explore how biophilia shouldn’t just be about a plant in the office and a picture of field on the wall; set out
Mad in America
MAY 9, 2024
“It seemed to me that all language is an excess of language” —Samuel Beckett A s an urban community mental health therapist, part of my job is meeting with new intakes and completing their comprehensive assessment—their first step in getting connected to a primary therapist and psychiatrist, and a document they’ll need if they apply for any special programs.
Workplace Insight
MAY 9, 2024
Four years after the start of the pandemic, a new survey from JLL claims that hybrid working is now the most common workstyle globally, with 87 percent of organisations operating with a hybrid program today. JLL’s new 2024 Global Occupancy Planning Benchmarking Report claims to outline how hybrid offices are actively shifting to accommodate a greater variety of work activities and how companies can look at occupancy planning and workplace design more holistically to reflect these changes.
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Office Snapshots
MAY 9, 2024
The client has a friendly culture, and through the introduction of the bar into the space, we have given the employees a space to chill and relax away from the desk while socialising with colleagues. The Juke box is a signature piece in the bar and adds to the fun nature of the space both through the music it plays and its aesthetics. The look and feel in the bar is very different to that of the office, allowing the team to have a space to switch off and feel disconnected from the intensity of t
Work Life
MAY 9, 2024
Activity but no progress, meetings with no follow-up, confused responsibilities, impossible demands, missed milestones, low morale, poor engagement, talent drain—does this sound familiar? These are the symptoms of the epidemic of underperformance in organizations that are being driven by issues with accountability. We all have accountability expectations every day, but they are so deeply embedded in our social structures, that we barely give them a thought.
Office Snapshots
MAY 9, 2024
Innovative global sportswear brand, On, has recently experienced exponential growth, outpacing its existing workspace. The company sought M Moser’s expertise to reinvent its Shanghai workplace for hosting events, displaying products and enabling collaborative work. In close collaboration with On’s internal design team, M Moser fully embraced and further refined its visionary ‘Mystical Utopia’ concept.
Work Life
MAY 9, 2024
We’ve all read the familiar advice about how to boost our productivity. Make a to-do list. Set priorities. Use the Pomodoro Technique. Take a short nap. Break tasks into smaller, manageable chunks. These suggestions are useful—but what if we need more help? Fortunately, there’s a simple, easily accessible, and even fun way to boost our productivity: by tuning into our five senses—and in particular, to our sense of hearing.
Office Snapshots
MAY 9, 2024
Under the innovation spearheaded by iDA Workplace, the JLL Taipei office has undergone a striking transformation. Integrating local elements and materials from Taiwan with a modern visual language, it now offers a more comfortable and wellbeing work environment. Stepping into the lobby, the design draws inspiration from Taipei’s natural scenery.
Work Life
MAY 9, 2024
The strategic deployment of AI technologies is central to maintaining and enhancing competitive advantage in today’s digital economy. The expectation is that employees in the age of AI will focus on higher value-added tasks, those that AI cannot do well, such as innovating, exchanging ideas, and finding highly creative solutions to problems. It’s critical to bring new talent into the organization that has the uniquely human skills that AI lacks.
Office Snapshots
MAY 9, 2024
An industrial warehouse where the company’s services were going to be centralized, as well as a point of sale, distribution and storage. The administrative part is divided into 3 floors of 800 m2 each: The first floor is intended for the sale and distribution of material where customers are received and welcomed with a sample of different products, vending machines and personalized attention to their needs.
Work Life
MAY 9, 2024
Some people say flat structures cause chaos in organizations. And while that can certainly be true, my experience has been different. After years of working for horizontal and vertical hierarchies, I realized I prefer the former. At Nokia, for example, agreeing on the simplest matters involved several offices and many meetings. Since I’ve always wanted to found a tech company, when I did it back in 2005, I opted for horizontal management.
Mad in America
MAY 9, 2024
I hear the music again. It’s my mother singing through the clay earth from her grave the way she sang from her bed at the asylum until they shut her up. I move to the tune one thousand miles from her coffin, my body dipping this way and that as if I’m a hummingbird in one of her Fabergé eggs, forever bobbing at honeysuckle. My body stiffens. I’ve been betrayed by the sweetness she still conjures from her insulin-soaked life, those days doctors and nurses drowned her with sugar water until she fe
Work Life
MAY 9, 2024
Comparing ourselves to others is a central part of the human experience. You can see it in almost every stage of life: a toddler who wants a new toy because their buddy got one; a teen searching for the best photo app so their Instagram pictures measure up to those of their friends; or an adult grateful to have spent the lockdown in their apartment with a balcony and great views while their peer was stuck in a windowless studio.
McKensey
MAY 9, 2024
Five building blocks can help Germany build a stronger foundation to expand private equity investment, creating value, employment, and economic growth.
I/O at Work
MAY 9, 2024
New research suggests that applicants may dislike when algorithms are used to evaluate video interviews, leading to a potential decrease in the applicant pool.
McKensey
MAY 9, 2024
Regulators and an uncertain market are making a strong Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process response a necessity in Europe. Here’s how to manage it successfully.
Launch Work Places
MAY 9, 2024
In a digital age where remote office setups, personal life happenings, and work have become inextricably intertwined, emotional labor, or the process of managing your emotions to maintain the status quo, has become burdensome. Originally coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild, the term “emotional labor” most often affects customer-facing roles like sales, hospitality, and counselling—roles in which being pleasant and happy equals success.
I/O at Work
MAY 9, 2024
New research suggests there may be an ideal number of issues to bring up during negotiations.
Work Life
MAY 9, 2024
New York City was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday claiming it discriminates against gay male city employees by only covering the costs of in vitro fertilization for women and heterosexual couples. The proposed class action was filed in Manhattan federal court by former assistant district attorney Corey Briskin and his husband, who say they were forced to put off having a family for years because the city’s employee health insurance plan denied them coverage for IVF procedures.
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